Microblog Conversation Recommendation via Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse

Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Nicholas Beauchamp, Sarah Shugars, Kam-Fai Wong


Abstract
Millions of conversations are generated every day on social media platforms. With limited attention, it is challenging for users to select which discussions they would like to participate in. Here we propose a new method for microblog conversation recommendation. While much prior work has focused on post-level recommendation, we exploit both the conversational context, and user content and behavior preferences. We propose a statistical model that jointly captures: (1) topics for representing user interests and conversation content, and (2) discourse modes for describing user replying behavior and conversation dynamics. Experimental results on two Twitter datasets demonstrate that our system outperforms methods that only model content without considering discourse.
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N18-1035
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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375–385
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-1035
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1035
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Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Nicholas Beauchamp, Sarah Shugars, and Kam-Fai Wong. 2018. Microblog Conversation Recommendation via Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 375–385, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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